Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.